An officer on patrol found the bodies of Bertoldo Velez, 55, and Joseph King Jr., 38, both of Penn Estates, early Friday morning in the parking area of Coolbaugh Township Park off Route 423, across from Tobyhanna Army Depot.

King was in the front passenger seat of Velez's 1997 Chevy Cavalier, while Velez was lying on the ground beside the car. Both men had been shot multiple times and an autopsy on Velez later revealed he had been smashed in the head with a rock, said Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen.

Allen said all bullet casings found at the scene came from a .45-caliber handgun and estimated the men had been killed sometime late Thursday night.

Both men were neighbors and worked at United Envelope, which makes envelopes, in Mount Pocono. Velez bundled waste paper while King, who had just become the father of a weeks-old baby, operated a forklift truck handling materials.